WELLESLEY, Mass., Oct. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 23 Babson College professors have created The New  Entrepreneurial Leader -- presenting a radically new approach to management specifically designed to meet the drastically changed needs and circumstances of the post-crash world.

Our economic crisis has shown that we need a fundamentally new kind of business leader--able to make ethical decisions in the face of strategic unknowns, serve the environment and society while also serving the needs of investors and shareholders, and understand how their personality and the social context in which they operate impacts their leadership.

Babson Entrepreneurial leadership is inspired by, but separate from, entrepreneurship. It can be applied in any organizational situation, not just start-ups. Based on extensive research, it embraces three principles that add up to the fundamentally new worldview of business and a new logic of decision-making.

Cognitively Ambidextrous Leaders

Leaders today must be "cognitively ambidextrous," meaning they must have the ability to shift between analytic- and action-oriented approaches--and know when to take action even when all the variables aren't known. They must look beyond the traditional balance sheet, creating social, environmental and economic value. And they need a deep awareness of how their decisions are impacted by who they are--their values, biases, background and capabilities--as well as the social and cultural context in which they operate.

Using Prediction Logic & Creation Logic

The authors of The New Entrepreneurial Leader discovered that rapid change and increasing uncertainty require leaders to be able to shift between traditional "prediction logic" (choosing actions based on analysis of known trends) and "creation logic" (taking action despite considerable unknowns). Guiding this different way of thinking is a different worldview of business and society, where simultaneous creation of social, environmental, and economic value is the order of the day. Entrepreneurial leaders also leverage their understanding of themselves and their social context to guide effective action.

About The Book

This unprecedented collaboration lays out a comprehensive new paradigm for reinventing management education in order to mold leaders who will shape social and economic opportunity. Each chapter in the book offers concrete examples of how educators across all disciplines are integrating these ideas into their courses, and even their entire curricula.

Readers can receive updated, supplemental material from the blog and videos found on the accompanying website - www.newleaderbook.com.

Table of Contents

Part I. A New Way of Thinking and Acting: Developing Cognitive Ambidexterity

1. Cognitive Ambidexterity: The Underlying Mental Model of the Entrepreneurial Leader

2. Creation Logic in Innovation: From Action Learning to Expertise

3. Prediction Logic: Analytics for Entrepreneurial Thinking

Part II. A New Worldview: Social, Environmental, and Economic Responsibility and Sustainability

4. SEERS: Defining Social, Environmental, and Economic Responsibility and Sustainability

5. Beyond Green: Encouraging Students to Create a Simultaneity of Positive SEERS Outcomes

6. Sustainability Metrics: Has the Time Arrived for Accountants to Embrace SEERS Reporting?

7. The Financial Challenge: Reconciling Social and Environmental Value with Shareholder Value

Part III. Self-and Social Awareness to Guide Action

8. Who Am I? Learning from and Leveraging Self-Awareness

9. What Is the Context? Fostering Entrepreneurial Leaders' Social Awareness

10. Whom Do I Know? Building and Engaging Social Networks Using Social Media Technology

Part IV. Management Educators as Entrepreneurial Leaders

11. A New Pedagogy for Teaching "Doing": Preparing Entrepreneurial Leaders for Values-Driven Action

12. Curriculum-Wide Change: Leading Initiatives to Develop Entrepreneurial Leaders

About the Authors

Greenberg, McKone-Sweet and Wilson, along with some of the top faculty at Babson, outline this new model in detail, explaining precisely how both educators and entrepreneurs can hone these three core competencies for coping with the demands and uncertainties of the modern world.

Danna Greenberg is Associate Professor of Management at Babson College, where she holds the Mandell Family Term Chair. She has published more than 30 articles in journals such as Journal of Management and Administrative Science Quarterly.

Kate McKone-Sweet is Associate Professor of Operations Management at Babson College and Chair of the Technology, Operations, and Information Management Division. Her work has appeared in publications such as the Journal of Operations Management and Production Operations Management.

H. James Wilson is a senior researcher and writer at Babson Executive Education. His research appears regularly on Harvard Business Review Online. He is co-author of What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking (Harvard Business Press).

Babson Faculty Contributors

Janice Bell
Richard Bliss
Tom Davenport
Stephen Deets
Lisa DiCarlo
Sebastian K. Fixson
Mary C. Gentile
PJ Guinan
Karen Hebert-Maccaro
James Hunt
Julian Lange
Nan S. Langowitz
Toni Lester
Heidi Neck
Salvatore Parise
Jay Rao
Vikki L. Rodgers
Keith Rollag
Virginia Soybel
Robert Turner

Website links:

Book: www.newleaderbook.com

Publisher:
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Babson College: www.babson.edu

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